Datarails

A new survey by financial planning platform Datarails finds that finance teams now spend roughly a quarter of their working week verifying the accuracy of AI-generated outputs. The findings highlight a growing burden on accounting and FP&A professionals as companies adopt artificial intelligence tools faster than they can audit them, raising questions about whether AI is delivering genuine time savings in financial workflows.

Finance software company Datarails reports that finance teams now spend just over a quarter of their workweek checking and verifying AI-generated outputs. The finding suggests that while AI adoption is spreading across financial planning and analysis, much of the promised time savings is being offset by the labor of reviewing results for accuracy.